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Mountain Shadow’s film selection for May, 2025: Based on Bill Bennett’s best selling Camino memoir, “The Way, My Way” is the charming and captivating true story of an Australian who decides to walk the 800 kilometre-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. He doesn’t know why he’s doing it, but one step at a time it will change him and his outlook on life forever. To read a brief Mountain Shadow commentary and review of the film click on the image above.
Our April’2025 film was a pre-theatrical release comedy/drama from Italy. A grade-school teacher from Rome moves to a remote village in the Abruzzo National Park and discover a different world that faces many of the challenges as the world “out there.” Click on the image above to read a brief Mountain Shadow review.
When a widow in Paris hears on the radio that an NGO is putting in touch homeless migrant refugees with people who are willing to welcome them -- she decides to welcome Reza who is a young Afghan broken by war and exile. Our March selection was a pre-theatrical release from France. Click on the image above to read a Mountain Shadow review of this film most appropriate for the times in which we find ourselves.
In January, Mountain Shadow kicked off our 2025 Season with this wonderful pre-theatrical "literary" Irish drama, “That They May Face the Rising Sun,” based on the great Irish novelist, John McGahern’s book by the same title. Click on the image above to read a film review by Mountain Shadow’s director, John Bennison.
Straight from the Toronto International Film Festival, Mountain Shadow’s October selection was an uplifting docu-drama, along with Toronto filmmaker Q&A via Zoom. BORN HUNGRY is a gritty, life-affirming human drama about a young boy in India, abandoned on the streets, then adopted by a compassionate Canadian couple; only to become a renowned 5-star chef. Click on the image above to read a brief commentary on this film.
Mountain Shadow's 10th Annual Short Film Competition brought eleven Finalists out of 344 submissions -- selected by our volunteer member jurors -- to Walnut Creek on Sept. 14th; to present their animated, live-action and documentary short films in person for audience choice awards. Click on the image to read more about this terrific show.
